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NBC News reports:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would pick Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III — who wrote a letter on behalf of his son, a convicted Jan. 6 rioter — to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Bozell’s son, L. Brent Bozell IV, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for assaulting law enforcement, destroying government property, and other charges related to his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021.
Before Trump this week pardoned 1,500 defendants who were charged in the Capitol attack, Bozell III defended his son in a letter last year against a terrorism enhancement put forward by prosecutors who had sought a sentence of more than 11 years. Prosecutors had accused Bozell’s son of multiple efforts to breach the Capitol, including smashing windows during the initial breach of the building. Prosecutors also said that Bozell made his way onto the Senate floor.
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The U.S. Agency for Global Media oversees federal news and information outlets including the Voice of America, meaning that Bozell will be Kari Lake’s boss.
Bozell, who is the nephew of dead right winger William F. Buckley, has appeared here countless times for his false claims and attacks on LGBTQ rights issues.
Perhaps most notably, in 2011 he appeared on Fox News where he called then-President Obama “a skinny ghetto crackhead.”
One of the several groups founded by Bozell, the Parents Television Council, regularly condemns portrayals of LGBTQ people on television.
In 2001, Bozell apologized and paid World Wrestling Entertainment $3.5 million after claiming that the WWE’s shows had caused the deaths of children copying wrestling stunts.
In the 80s, Bozell joined a right wing PAC founded by Roger Stone and Terry Dolan, the closeted anti-gay homocon and Moral Majority co-founder who later died of AIDS – but not before Larry Kramer threw a glass of water in his face.
Of note, in 2016 Bozell condemned Trump as a “charlatan huckster,” adding, “God help this country if this man were president.”
